7th over: India 60-5 (Varma 3, Rana 6) Rashid replaces Archer after that electric opening spell. Rana times one beautifully off his pads for four. Six off the over. Have I mentioned how much I enjoy Damm Cerveza and Lemon on a warm July evening? I bet a free case tastes even better…

6th over: India 54-5 (Varma 2, Rana 1) Will Jacks rattles through a quick and cheap over, just two runs off it. England are cock-a-hoop. Anyone mind if I crack open a Damm Cerveza and Lemon* and some dry roasted? It feels appropriate.

*Surely The Guardian has done a piece on this as the drink of the summer? I’m open for commissions and sponsorship…)

5th over: India 52-5 (Varma 1, Rana 0) Will Jacks is coming on to bowl and it is Harshit Rana is out there for India, they’ve torn up the batting card!

4th over: India 41-3 (Iyer 4, Axar Patel 0) Axar Patel is promoted to number 5 for India. Has he been told to steady the ship?

Kishan climbs into a short ball from Tongue and it clears the fence…

3rd over: India 33-2 (Kishan 6, Iyer 4) The crowd aren’t kept down for too long following Sooryavanshi’s dismissal, Shreyas Iyer arrives and flicks Archer off his pads in style for four. Phew, breathless stuff at Trent Bridge.

2nd over: India 24-1 (Sooryavanshi 13, Kishan 1) Ishan Kishan at first drop. He gets a single off his first ball and will thus be on strike to Archer next over. Booooo!

Josh Tongue starts with a full bunger that Abhishek smashes for SIX. A single to the next ball… SIX! Sooryavanshi clears his front leg and whips a length ball into the crowd. He mishits a drive next ball to get a single. “Happy with one” chuckles Stuart Broad on the tv commentary.

1st over: India 9-0 (Abhishek 3, Sooryavanshi 6) Abhishek swipes two into the off side to get India going. Its all the lead up to the main event though. The crowd comes alive as a quick single brings Vaibhav Sooryavanshi on strike. Archer treats him to a rapid bouncer that the Kid tries to hook for SIX but doesn’t connect… he does with the next though! Vaibhav slams Archer for SIX over point second ball! Incredible shot.

Here comes Abhishek Sharma and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. They ain’t going to die wondering. Jofra Archer is opening up for England. Play!

19th over: England 192-5 (Curran 38, Jacks 13) Excellent penultimate over from Prince Yadav. Just seven runs off it and he sees Curran spilled on the boundary. One more to come, Yadav finishes his set of four with figures of 2-30. Decent.

18th over: England 185-5 (Curran 32, Jacks 12) Sam Curran’s golden little knock continues, he whallops the hat trick ball from Rana through the covers for four and then hacks another through cover. 15 off the the over in total, England have twelve balls to go tonto.

17th over: England 170-5 (Curran 18, Jacks 12) Will Jacks enters the fray and marmalises two SIXES right away! Clears the front leg and smites through the leg side. 18 runs and the wicket off the over!

16th over: England 152-4 (Salt 64, Curran 18) Sam Curran playing a decent cameo, he hangs back and slaps a Varun google down to long on for four.

Egypt v Argentina is a thriller by the way. I’ll forgive you a sneaky peek. I’d never do such a thing though, cut me and I bleed bilateral T20.

15th over: England 143-4 (Salt 62, Curran 11) Three singles off Arshdeep before Salt has enough and lumberjacks a length ball into the leg side on the breeze for SIX. Too full in the follow up from the bowler and Salt bunts for four more. 15 off the over, England’s run rate rising to over nines. Five overs to go, they need at least 200 on this wicket I reckon.

14th over: England 128-4 (Salt 50, Curran 9) Salt brings up his fifty off 36 balls to warm applause from the home fans at Trent Bridge. Axar whistles through a tight over though, just six off it in total for England. Arshdeep is coming back for India.

13th over: England 122-4 (Salt 48, Curran 5) Salt pulls Prince Yadav for four and Shivam Dube has another shocker in the field to gift Sam Curran four with a failed pick up at midwicket. Salt needs to go on to a big one here for England.

12th over: England 111-4 (Salt 42, Curran 0) Harshit Rana gets two in two and will be on a hat-trick at the start of the next over. Banton upper cut an easy catch to Varun and walked off bemused at why he did such a thing. Sam Curran is coming out to join Phil Salt, England teetering.

11th over: England 104-2 (Salt 40, Bethell 8) Salt drives Axar Patel over cover for four and then takes a single into the off side. Bethell sweeps for four to bring up England’s ton. Two more singles makes it 12 off the over.

10th over: England 92-2 (Salt 34, Bethell 2) SIX! Varun slams a short ball into the pitch but it sits up nicely for Salt who finally nails one over midwicket. He blows out his cheeks in relief. Thar she blows. Salt opens his shoulders to hit through the line and pick up four down the ground. Four more, poor bit of fielding from Prince Yadav at deep point, the spin on Salt’s cut shot making s fool of him.

Ten done. Salt and England needed that last over but I still have them down as second at the halfway stage.

9th over: England 74-2 (Salt 17, Bethell 1) Jacob Bethell off the mark with a leg glance to his first ball. Phil Salt is stinking the place out a little, he has 17 off 19 after being flummoxed by a slower ball bouncer and then finding the fielder with a full blooded pull shot.

8th over: England 67-1 (Salt 16, Brook 12) Leggies from Varun Chakravarthy now. Buttler and Salt combine for eight runs off it but still can’t find the fence. This is becoming a problem for England.

7th over: England 59-1 (Salt 14, Brook 6) Shivam Dube starts with a slower ball bouncer that is way too wide and called so. Salt muscles one down the ground, I don’t think he’s middled one all innings. Sure enough he gets a toed end on the next and it squirts away for four. Brook clips for two into the leg side, England have only hit six boundaries so far and Buttler hit four of those.

6th over: England 49-1 (Salt 8, Brook 3) Not much Buttler could have done with that torpedo tbh. Harry Cherrington Brook replaces him out in the middle. This’ll be a quiet few overs… not. Having said that, tight fielding from India means there are only singles and one mistimed pull from Brook for two off the rest of the over. PowerPlay done, India on top.

5th over: England 43-0 (Salt 6, Buttler 36) Rana changes ends but Buttler don’t care, he kabblamoes his first ball over the leg side for SIX. Brutal. Buttler then snaps those wrists on a yorker and somehow gets it back down the ground for four. A single brings Salt on strike for the final ball of the over, he has a wild swish at the last ball and completely misses, throwing his head back and screaming some effing and jeffing up into the blue Nottingham skies. It’s not happening for him at the moment.

4th over: England 32-0 (Salt 6, Buttler 25) Axar Patel into the attack, beats Buttler with some extra bounce first ball. Slam! Buttler launches the next ball over the bowler’s head for SIX. Buttler picks up two through the covers and then swishes a pull through the vacant leg side for four. 13 off the over.

“Evening James, evening everyone. I’m looking forward to following the OBO today, in and around various other sporting events this evening. Fingers crossed for a good shoot out between Archer and The Kid later on!”

Girds loinded for this indeed Neil Withers (who thank the Lord is still…)

“Can I get a shout out to my Royal Society of Chemistry cricket club team mates? We’re currently propping up the Cambridge Business House League division four on nul points - sadly our sole win so far this season was a friendly!”

If you OBO it, the wins will come – I think it was Kevin Costner who said that?

3rd over: England 19-0 (Salt 6, Buttler 12) Buttler manages to get four over mid off with a miss hit off Arshdeep. The bowler follows up with two extremely wide yorkers, one of which is called a wide. Pressure building on England’s openers… Buttler gives it the full shoulder shimmy and slams a pull shot over midwicket for four. Twelve off the over in total.

2nd over: England 7-0 (Salt 5, Buttler 2) Harshit Rana starts with two dots and then Buttler gets England away to ironic cheers with a bunt for a single to mid on. Salt then collects their first boundary with a clip off his pads for four. Two singles down the ground make it seven off the second over. Quiet start for England.

1st over: England 0-0 (Salt 0, Buttler 0) Trent Bridge looks an absolute picture on this sunny July evening. Arshdeep starts accurately, pinning Salt on the crease for three dots in a row and then zeroing one onto his shin. It looked leg-sidey in realtime but India like it enough to send it upstairs… NOT OUT – it pitched outside leg.

Close again! Nearly a carbon copy with the fifth ball, Salt beaten for pace again, luckily for him it was swinging down past leg stump. BEATEN! What a first over from Arshdeep Singh and India, Salt nearly cleaned up with the final ball, it swings back and misses off stump by a gnat’s eyelash. A lesser spotted T20I maiden to begin proceedings.

Righto, here come the players. Jos Buttler and Phil Salt to open up for England with the bat. Arshdeep Singh for India with the ball. Let’s play!

Pre game reading:

Teams:

Vaibhav plays again (hooray) and Prince Yadav is in for Ravi Bishnoi. England are unchanged from Manchester.

England: Phil Salt, Jos Buttler (wk), Harry Brook (c), Jacob Bethell, Tom Banton, Sam Curran, Will Jacks, Liam Dawson, Adil Rashid, Jofra Archer, Josh Tongue

India: Abhishek Sharma, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Ishan Kishan (wk), Shreyas Iyer (c), Tilak Varma, Shivam Dube, Axar Patel, Harshit Rana, Prince Yadav, Arshdeep Singh Varun Chakravarthy